LECTURE SCHEDULE
Week 1: Wed., Sept.1: #1: Introduction and Overview
Fri. , Sept.3: #2: Barack Obama and the 2008 “Historic” Campaign
Week 2: Mon. Sept. 6: LABOR DAY: NO CLASSES
Wed. Sept. 8: VIDEO: 2008 Campaign
Week 3: Mon. Sept. 13: #3:”Candidus”: The Traditional Campaign
Wed., Sept. 15: #4: “A Bundle of Compromises”: The Constitutional Campaign
Week 4: Mon., Sept.20: #5: George Washington and Republican Virtue SPOTLIGHT: 1788
Wed, Sept. 22: VIDEO: Images of the Mass Campaign
Week 5: Mon. Sept. 27: #6: The Emergence of Parties
Wed. Sept. 29: #7: Andrew Jackson and the Partisan Campaign SPOTLIGHT: 1828
Week 6: Mon., Oct. 4: : #8: Confusion Reigns: 1840 and 1844 SPOTLIGHT: 1840
Wed., Oct. 6: #9: Abraham Lincoln: America’s Greatest Politician and
Golden Age of Campaigning. SPOTLIGHT: 1860
Week 7: Mon. Oct. 11: CANADIAN THANKSGIVING NO CLASSES
Wed., Oct. 13: #10: SPOTLIGHT 1876: Education and Partisanship: The Stalemate
Week 8: Mon., Oct. 18: #11: SPOTLIGHT 1896: The Battle of the Standards
Wed., Oct. 20: #12: The Power of the Press and The Brave New World of Twentieth
Century Politics
Week 9: Mon., Oct. 25: VIDEO: The Kennedy-Nixon Debates
Wed., Oct. 27: #13 FDR and the Rise of Mass Culture
Week 10: Mon., Nov. 1: #14: Richard Nixon and The Television Revolution: The Checkers Speech
Wed., Nov. 3: #15: The Television Revolution
Week 11: Mon., Nov. 8: #16: The Selling of the President, 1960s
Wed., Nov. 10: #17: The Modern Campaign: Primarily Overreported?
Week 12: Mon., Nov. 15: #18: Tricky Dick, Betty Ford and the Primal Scene of Presidential Politics
Wed., Nov. 17: #19: The Republican Juggernaut
Week 13: Mon., Nov. 22: : #20: The Presidency in the Age of the Popular Campaign
Wed., Nov. 24: #21: Republicanism and Liberal Democracy in the late 1980s and 1990s…
Week 14: Mon. Nov. 29: #22: George Bush wins in 2000 and 2004: what went wrong — and what went right and Right?
Wed., Dec. 1: #23: Conclusions: The Presidential Campaign in a Changing — and Unchanging World
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